Ok I used to have 2 comps side-by-side but decided I didn't really need 2 comps but I liked 2 monitors. Long story short, I salvaged the hard drive, pci video card, and 19 inch lcd from the secondary comp and added them to the first comp. In the past, when using dual displays I just let windows handle it (my first dual display setup was a 3DFX Voodoo2 2000 PCI and Savage S3 agp or something like that on win98). Anyway, it works fine for mostly everything. The only complaints I have are the following:
1 - I have to have the same desktop wallpaper on both displays
2 - If the secondary display is setup on the right side of the primary, it does funky stuff when I start 3d apps (but if I set the second display on the left, it doesn't do this).
3 - I haven't been able to get CoD to run right since I made the changes. It runs at about 1 frame every 3 seconds (no joke here).
Now, after reading a thread earlier today about ATI's hydravision on the general hardware forum, I have several questions. My setup is the following:
A64 3000 (stock speeds)
Asus K8V Deluxe
512 MB Corsair XMS PC3200 @2,3,3,6
Primary Video - ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (it has vga and dvi output and I have a dvi-to-vga adapter) Cat 4.1
Secondary Video - ATI Radeon 7000 PCI
ATI TV Wonder VE PCI TV card
Philips Acoustic Edge Sound Board
IBM Deskstar and Maxtor 30 GB/7200 rpm hard drives
Sony CDRW and DVD drives
Enermax 431 PSU
Antec 3700AMB
Samsung 172N + 192N LCD's
Windows 2000 SP4
What I'm wondering is what kind of performance/quality differences there would be if I just used the 9700 for both displays. Can I use hydravision with seperate adapters? or is it just if you use 2 outs on one card? what if I used 3 monitors? will hydravision work for that? Finally, is there a reason to use hydravision? will it allow me to have different backgrounds? might it fix the CoD problem? is there any third-party software available that does all this better then windows or ati?
1 - I have to have the same desktop wallpaper on both displays
2 - If the secondary display is setup on the right side of the primary, it does funky stuff when I start 3d apps (but if I set the second display on the left, it doesn't do this).
3 - I haven't been able to get CoD to run right since I made the changes. It runs at about 1 frame every 3 seconds (no joke here).
Now, after reading a thread earlier today about ATI's hydravision on the general hardware forum, I have several questions. My setup is the following:
A64 3000 (stock speeds)
Asus K8V Deluxe
512 MB Corsair XMS PC3200 @2,3,3,6
Primary Video - ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (it has vga and dvi output and I have a dvi-to-vga adapter) Cat 4.1
Secondary Video - ATI Radeon 7000 PCI
ATI TV Wonder VE PCI TV card
Philips Acoustic Edge Sound Board
IBM Deskstar and Maxtor 30 GB/7200 rpm hard drives
Sony CDRW and DVD drives
Enermax 431 PSU
Antec 3700AMB
Samsung 172N + 192N LCD's
Windows 2000 SP4
What I'm wondering is what kind of performance/quality differences there would be if I just used the 9700 for both displays. Can I use hydravision with seperate adapters? or is it just if you use 2 outs on one card? what if I used 3 monitors? will hydravision work for that? Finally, is there a reason to use hydravision? will it allow me to have different backgrounds? might it fix the CoD problem? is there any third-party software available that does all this better then windows or ati?
